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Twenty years ago, California public schools were forcing thousands of Latino children into Spanish-almost-only classes against the wishes of their parents.

In 1996, The Los Angeles Times told the story of a group of Latino immigrant parents who began a public protest against their local elementary school for refusing to teach their children English, boycotting classes and marching outside with picket signs.

That protest inspired our “English for the Children” initiative campaign, which began the following year. Our Proposition 227 required California public schools to teach children English from their first day of classes, placing children who didn’t know English into an intensive sheltered English immersion program to teach them the language as quickly as possible, then moving them into the regular classes with all the other children.

Our honorary chairman was the late Jaime Escalante of “Stand and Deliver” fame, one of America’s most famous teachers, and we attracted enormous public support. Even though almost all the politicians, Democrat and Republican alike, refused to support our initiative, we still won a landslide victory, getting over 61 percent of the vote.

The educational results were tremendous. Most California newspapers had opposed our ballot measure, but once it passed they immediately began reporting how well the new system worked and how quickly and easily hundreds of thousands of Latino children were learning English.

Within four years, the academic test scores of over 1 million immigrant schoolchildren had increased by 30 percent, 50 percent or even 100 percent. Proposition 227 was so successful that its educational results were reported on the front page of The New York Times, with major coverage by CBS News and many other national media outlets.

The founding president of the California Association of Bilingual Educators publicly admitted that he’d been mistaken for 30 years and that intensive English immersion was the best educational policy for immigrant children. He became a leading national advocate of English in the schools.

Because nearly all the Latino children in California schools are now immediately taught English, they’re doing much better academically and gaining admission to top colleges. Despite the end of affirmative action in California, there’s been a huge increase in the number of Latinos attending the prestigious University of California system.

So-called “Dual-Language Programs” — in which up to 90 percent of the instruction is in Spanish — were never completely outlawed by Proposition 227. However, parents who wanted to place their children in such non-English classes had to sign an annual waiver, and since the overwhelming majority of Latino parents wanted their children taught English, that’s exactly what has happened.

However, a small group of die-hard bilingual education activists never gave up. They recently hoodwinked some of the politicians in Sacramento into placing Proposition 58 on the ballot, hoping to repeal Proposition 227 and allow the re-establishment of Spanish-almost-only classes throughout California.

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The supporters of Proposition 58 have publicly admitted that one of their biggest objections to the current system is that it has been difficult to persuade immigrant parents to sign waivers placing their children in non-English classes. Therefore, Proposition 58 eliminates that requirement and allows children to be placed in non-English classes without the written consent of their parents, just as had been the case 20 years ago.

The overwhelming majority of California voters, immigrant and native-born alike, believe children should be taught English in school. Therefore, the supporters of Proposition 58 are being dishonest and trying to trick the voters. They sought to give their ballot measure the very deceptive official title “English Language Education” even though it actually repeals the requirement that children be taught English in California public schools. Their proposed title of their proposition is the exact opposite of what it actually does.

And the worst part of Proposition 58 is hidden away in Section 8, which repeals all restrictions on the California Legislature to make future changes. This would allow the Legislature to reestablish mandatory Spanish-almost-only instruction in all our public schools by a simple majority vote, once again forcing all Latino children into those classes against their parents’ wishes.

Proposition 227 — “English for the Children” — has worked very well in California and has greatly improved the education of millions of immigrant schoolchildren since 1998. The voters should keep this successful system and not be tricked into re-establishing the failed education programs of the past.

Unz, a Silicon Valley software developer, was chairman of the 1998 “English for the Children” campaign to pass Proposition 227.

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True, and like I said, the number of victims of mass shootings is far, far less than alleged. Still, poking around the official story is fraught with danger for the establishment, hence it’s safer for them to go with the whoppers.

I disagree.
---> Just recently encountered Christopher Jon Bjerknes, who argues relentlessly that Hitler was a stooge for the bankers who wanted war and financed Hitler to the tune of $100 million.
https://archive.org/details/TheFrenchConnectionArchive-DarylBradfordSmith/060109-jonBjerknes...

the fact that he was forced to deal again and again with collaborative Jewish behavior in order to explain the ultimate outcome. That made him unpopular in Israel
I would be not surprised if the book was not translated into Hebrew yet. Hannah Arendt in her "Einstein in Jerusalem" used a lot...

Good to know, thanks.
Recently a college senior at Gettysburg College posted an essay on Fort Ritchie and the Ritchie Boys, "The Castle of Intelligence: Camp Ritchie, Maryland and the Military Intelligence Training Center in World War II by Kevin Aughinbaugh.
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/cg...

First of all, I was simply playing devils' advocate in playing out the thought experiment that you started--and it was specific to the Auschwitz I scenario (where earlier I've highlighted that the input shafts were a fraud only ever put there AFTER THE WAR in the 'reconstruction' of that buildin...

absolutely.
Nazis and Zionists are birds of a feather.
then...and now.
that's why it's most effective to simply tell the truth about the Nazi-Jew catastrophe in WW II Europe, and Zionist involvement, and not play Denialist sandbox games. That way
we can undermine Israhell by pinning...

re the Vinnitsa photo:
It is really much simpler to spot the glaring contradictions in this 'photo' when one concentrates on the soldiers in question. What I find most compelling is that the two soldiers were never original to the photo presented. When one simply applies common sense in terms of...

all autistic non-sequiters, as usual:
the original document is a raw field report from Pruetzmann, thus the roughness. Himmler initialed, then passed it on to Adolf.
HSSPL Pruetzmann's report covers August-November, not September-November; you autists can't even read a document, much less crit...

Hey Beef,
Beefcake the Mighty to Wally
Um, well there wouldn’t be much point in propagandizing graves holding thousands when the claimed crimes number in the millions, would there?
I have to disagree here. The war was raging and the Germans had found and fully investigated the Soviet mass mu...

Meanwhile, in the Kaganat of Nuland (former Ukraine) the best friends of Kagans & McCain are accused of war crimes against civilians. Guess, the "liberated" banderites have been following the diktat from the Masters: https://www.fort-russ.com/2018/08/u-n-recognizes-ukrainian-war-crimes-in-ilo...

On the topic of US Supreme Court Justices are you aware that one of them Harlan Fiske Stone referred to the Nuremberg tribunal as a "lynching party" and a "sanctimonious fraud" ?
https://forum.codoh.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=11053

http://vho.org/VffG/1999/2/Image24.jpg
Haxo Angmark, you blew it again. You present a laughable piece of paper as proof of the 'holocaust'. Sorry pal, it's old news and has been debunked with ease.
According to debunked 'Nuremberg doc. NO-1128', it is allegedly from Himmler to Hitler report...

"Freemasons are the main recruitment center, and schooling center where international Jewry and Zio’s get future Shabbos Goyim’s from."
I agree, looks like that to me also and this makes much sense. Money rules the world.

Hitler not only considered moving his HQ up to Vinnitsa, he did so....once the local Jew and communist partisan problems were cleared up. Used by der Fuehrer during 1942-43, it was located c. 8 miles north of the city:
"Hitler's accomodation ar Werwolf consisted of a modest log cabin around a pr...

You've highlighted one of core reasons for inventing the fake 6M* in the first place.
Cash & lot's of it.
Thanks.
www.codoh.com
* The fake 6M which Jews have been pushing since at least 1823.
- see comment #311 of this thread

Freemasons are the main recruitment center, and schooling center where international Jewry and Zio's get future Shabbos Goyim's from. I read several different articles over time that all stated something about how, most every city police Chief and Captains are freemasons. Not so many regular low ...

We all remember the famous case of the "Jewish 'Mona Lisa', the portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer by Gustav Klimt which Adele bequethed with other paintings of Klimt, to the Austrian State Gallery in Vienna, but declared 'stolen by the Nazis' and claimed by a niece of Adele, Maria Altman (a Holocaust...

Is it not inconceivable that Jews encouraged Germans in policies that could lead to or hasten segregation of the two population groups?Don't talk bollocks. When I said that "Jews who were not murdered where they lived were sent to concentration camps" I was not talking about anything that could b...

One of the great cultural power struggles of WWII was the German insistence that traditional German art was superior, against the Jewish insistence that German art was outmoded and 'modern' art was the next new thing.
One antisemitic view holds that the Jewish preference for modern art falls i...

said:
"as of August-September 1942, Hitler was planning to move his forward HQ from Rastenburg in East Prussia to Vinnitsa…so the SS/Police in that area were, for security reasons, particularly keen on liquidating all the local Jews and Red partisans."
Says who? You? LOL
Where's your proof ...

IOW, I have slapped you silly, beat you on everything you have thrown up, and now that is all that you have to say. LOL
Recommended to everyone, don't bother Haxo Angmark, you'll never be able to keep up:
Another Eichmann Movie and the reality and fundamental inexplicability of anti-Semitic eli...